BIT 201 - Biotechnology I Lecture

Hours: 2

This course introduces basic skills in preparation for Biotechnology II. Topics and techniques may include but are not limited to: safety, Good Laboratory and Manufacturing Practices, agarose gel electrophoresis, plasmid mapping, plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mini-preparations, Southern and Western blotting, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel exlectrophoresis of proteins, polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequencing, DNA and protein chromatography, plant cell culture, and/or other appropriate molecular techniques used in biotechnology laboratory settings.

Lecture/Laboratory: Two one-hour lecture sessions and two three-hour laboratory sessions per week.
Prerequisite: BIT 101
Prerequisite/Corequisite: BIO 121
Corequisite: BIT 202